122 REMARKS ON THE PINK. 



ARTICLE II. 



REMARKS ON THE PINK. 



BY MR. THOMAS CONNELLY, FLORIST, PRESTON. 



On looking over the Numbers of the Cabinet for March and April, 

 I perceive a good deal is said concerning this most beautiful flower. 

 It is strange that so much difference in opinion should exist between 

 the south and the north country growers. When Pinks are intro- 

 duced into this part of the country from the south, they for the most 

 part burst, and are filled with small petals and bad lacing; this 

 cannot be because of the change from the south to the north — there 

 must be some other cause. Mr. Ibbett, of Woolwich, in Kent, says, 

 " he never saw, or heard of, a good Pink in Lancashire." This is 

 passing strange; so that all the Pinks raised in this county amongst 

 the best of growers, goes for nothing, and which have been, and con- 

 tinue to be, sent to all parts of the country ; arid it is most extra- 

 ordinary that none have yet found their way into the county of Kent. 

 Mr. Ibbett further adds, that he has had the pleasure of supplying 

 his Pinks into many of the northern districts. Be it so. I have fre- 

 quently met with what is called Pink fanciers, whose taste and fancy 

 was, the bigger the flower the better esteemed ; the bursting, small 

 petals, bad lacing, were not deemed faults: the individuals whom 

 Mr. Ibbett supplied may have been of this class of admirers. I have 

 always considered the Pinks of the south and the Pinks of the north 

 quite different in character, and fully agree with Mr. Dent, here, in 

 what he says in the April Number of the Cabinet ; indeed, 

 it would be better if the south growers would give up the contest, and 

 say at once, what we have frequently said, are the Pinks they most 

 esteem ; and I will answer for all the Lancashire growers that they 

 will feel quite comfortable on the subject — we, with our clean, uu- 

 bursting pods, good leaf, (petal,) well laced, and having as many 

 floral leaves as to form a regular flower — they, with their large, 

 bursting pods, full of small petals, with bad lacing, and in which 

 there is nothing to make a good Pink of. All will then be perfectly 

 satisfied that they possess flowers suited to the fancy of themselves, 

 and those who dispose of them, for their customers. There will he a 

 Pink show here next month, when I will forward a list for the 



